Joseph W. Belknap
Funeral services for Joseph W. Belknap, 85, Clinton resident, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Trinity Lutheran Church, officiated by Tammy Evans and Jeff McDowell.
Belknap died Friday, April 3, 2015, in his Clinton home. He was born Aug. 4, 1929 in Hobart, the son of Floyd and Gertrude (Alexander) Belknap.
He was raised in Hobart and moved to Clinton when he was about 10 years old. He graduated from Clinton High School.
Belknap married Volina Mae Mueller on June 19, 1949 in Clinton. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1952 on his 23rd birthday Aug. 4, 1952 and served in the Korean Conflict before receiving his honorable discharge in July of 1954.
He had worked for Nash Finch, Piggly Wiggly and Safeway Stores before entering the military. Returning to Oklahoma and settling back in Clinton, he worked for the Clinton Packing Plant as a meat cutter for several years and then he worked for Dolese and retired in 1995.
Preceding him in death were his wife; a daughter, Deborah Ann, in 1952; a granddaughter, Sarah Shea Bowman; a grandson, Bryan Bradley Bowman; and brothers and sisters, Herschel Belknap, Thelma Bishop, Loretta Douglas, Audrey Stewart, Ina Nell Belknap, Charles Belknap and Kathleen Moore-Wilson.
He was a longtime member of the Trinity Lutheran Church and was baptized on June 12, 1949.
Survivors include two daughters, Brenda Butler, and Karen Bowman, and husband, Frank, both of Clinton, and Bret Belknap, and his wife, Rennie, of Arapaho; a sister, Dorothy Gabler, of Clinton; two sisters-in-law, Kathleen Lucus, and her husband, Dwight, of Clinton and Florence O’Hara, and her husband, Max, of El; Reno; a brother-in-law, Bob Wilson, of Perry; grandchildren, Stuart Butler and Jonathan Myer, Matthew Butler, Adrieane Bowman, Melita Bowman and Cody Grandstaff, Valissa Bowman, Sarah Belknap and Maxton Andrus, E.J. Belknap; and great-grandchildren, Ryan Bowman, Cole Bowman, Frank Bowman, Meleana Nolin, Blake Nolin and one great grandchild on the way, Kadene Louann Grandstaff.
The family will greet guests at 7 p.m. this evening (Tuesday) at the family home at 414 S. 16th in Clinton.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery, under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.